New law website analyzes Cosby, ‘Making a Murderer’ cases

Media entrepreneur Dan Abrams is creating a new Web destination for crime-fixated New Yorkers. The site, called LawNewz.com, is slated to launch Tuesday and is already tackling topics as diverse as Bill Cosby’s culpability and the Netflix true crime documentary, “Making a Murderer.” Two executives will run the service: Rachel Stockman, the daughter of David Stockman, a former economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and Beth Karas, who is a former Manhattan assistant district attorney and legal reporter. The site is the latest addition to the Abrams Media Network, best known for Mediaite, a news site that covers the intersection of politics and TV news. “We’ll have legal experts and journalists analyzing the biggest story of the day, from the ‘natural born’ debate around Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to unbelievable crime stories, and a bit of Supreme Court,” Abrams,…